Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding: Corporate Culture

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has won its prominent market share in the fierce competition with a superior team out of advanced enterprise culture, as well as a quick development out of a solid enterprise culture.

Being in construction and development for nine years, SWS has become the No.1 shipyard nationwide in respect to output, orders and economic returns for several years.

Since its establishment, SWS has set the enterprise motto of “Learning, Innovation, Unity and Excellence”, the enterprise values of “Harmonious Partnership between Management and Staff”, the corporate development target of “Building advanced enterprise and cultivating excellent staff”, and the enterprise management concept of “Enhancing environment-friendly shipbuilding, establishing safety-guaranteed environment, building first-rate products” as well. The enterprise has edited and printed the basic manuals of “Visual Image Identification System of Enterprise Culture” and “Staff Guidance”, which regulated and systemized the culture construction of SWS.

With the cultural accumulation of nine years, SWS has formed ten culture features of its own, namely; the progressive culture of study, the pursuing culture of innovation, the all-inclusive culture of team, the humane culture of management, the resolute culture of execution, the faithful culture of honesty, the strict culture of rules, the tidy culture of environment, the regulated culture of team building, and the summarized culture of introspection. The enterprise culture has been combined with the daily administration and rooted into the daily affairs. Furthermore, the company’s staff is motivated by this kind of enterprise culture to innovate continuously. The enterprise culture of SWS is complex in the fields of hierarchy and structure, internality and externality, theory and practice. With the culture of execution power, the SWS concept of enterprise culture has been absorbed into the different levels of company management. So all the SWS staff has kept striving for her future with their full enthusiasm. In the past nine years, a lot of SWS employees have written the advancing history of Chinese Shipbuilding Industry with their skills and wisdom.